Happiness is a journey, not a destination...

I got a gym membership a little over a month ago. I've been going to the gym for about an hour 3 times a week. It made me feel really good. I had more energy, I wasn't sleeping in as much, and it just made me feel accomplished. I didn't have a scale so I couldn't really keep track of my weight. A week ago I decided to buy one. On Saturday April 3rd, I weighed 156 pounds. Ugh. That made me feel a little bit downhearted, but I was determined to lose weight. So, during that day and the next I thought a lot about my eating habits. They weren't really bad. I just drank a lot of soda pop, and if I was hungry at work I would get some fatty snack from the vending machine. So I decided to cut those two things out and see how much it would affect things. I went the the grocery store and got a few things I could snack on at work and some power-ade to substitute in for soda pop. So all this past week I've had carrot sticks instead of potato chips and apples and oranges instead of candy bars. I've also had pretzels and wheat thins. I stepped on the scale this morning hoping to see a difference. I wasn't disappointed. Just cutting out those two things and exercising 3 times a week had made a drastic improvement. As of today, I weigh 140 pounds. In one week, I lost 15 pounds. To all the people that have been telling me that's all it takes: My bad, I'm a believer now. :D Go me!